Re: emacs *very slow* to launch
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, I wrote:
>
> > I'm running 1.3.1 in terminal mode. I launch emacs by typing 'emacs'
> > at the cmd line, and it takes *at least* five minutes to come up.
> > Once up, it works just fine. And other apps don't seem to have this
> > problem: they launch as quickly as ever.
>
> This is the behavior I've come to expect from emacs. Eighteen
> Megs And Constantly Swapping.
> It's a huge app! What sort of hardware do you have? What version
> of Emacs? I wouldn't run it on anything sub-pentium, myself.
It's a pentium-class machine, 166mhz most likely.
It ran emacs fine just two weeks ago. And once the thing's launched
it's still fine. But the now launch takes 5 or 10 minutes where it
used to take five seconds.
--Eric House
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